Jncipit p[ro]logus sancti Hieronimi cardinalis p[re]sbiteri in libros vitas pat[rum] sancto[rum] Egiptio[rum]
Contributors: Zainer, Johannes, d. 1541?, printer; Erzabtei St. Peter (Salzburg, Austria); Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: ... impressi per Joha[n]nem Zainer im opido Vlm ...
Published: 1478
Place of publication: Ulm, Germany]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 375
Subjects: Christian saints; Early works to 1800; Fathers of the church; Biography; Hermits
Other titles: Jn antiquo[rum] patrum vitas a beato Hieronimo co[n]scriptas registru[m] alphabetico ordine diligenter collectu[m] ...; Incipit prologus sancti Hieronimi cardinalis presbiteri in libros Vitas patrum sanctorum Egiptiorum; Vitas patrum sanctorum Egiptiorum
Work titles: Vitae patrum
Notes: Sixth century collection of legendary biographies of saints, built from the base of biographies and legends on Egyptian hermits already compiled in Greek (Apophthegmata Patrum or Sayings of the Fathers). The Latin collection contains translation or original writings of St. Jerome, Rufinus, Sulpicius Severus, Cassianus and others. This text underwent enrichments and interpolations.

Title from incipit, leaf [2]1.

Imprint from colophon; date from Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.)

Signatures: [1]¹⁰ [2-23]¹⁰/⁸ [24]⁶ [25-36]¹⁰/⁸ [37-39]¹⁰ [40]⁸ [41]¹⁰ [42-43]⁸ (last leaf blank).

Last foliated leaf misnumbered.

LC copy has opening page (leaf [2]1) decorated in gold and colors, with the opening initial in colors. Capital strokes and headlines in red; initials, paragraph marks, and underlining in red and blue.  Some initials have pen drawn decoration in colors.

Goff H-200

Hain 8594*

GW M50882

BM 15th cent., II, p. 528-529 (IB. 9229)

Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) ih00200000

LC copy has stamped binding (dated 1664) and bookplate Ex Bibliotheca antiquo-nova Monasterii ad sanctum Petrum Salisburgi O. S. Benedicti ab Anno 1767, in alium ordinem redacta.